Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1887-06-09
THE peninsula.

THE PENINSULA.
Delaware City Inst week sent Ia tons Of
sturgeon and rs kegs of caviare to
market.
Tho Eastern Shore Telephone COM
pany, running from a12hAton to Ridgely
and from Marydel to Tampleyilie, il adj
vsrtiaed at sheriif's sale TO be sold on
June gath.
A Saturdays dispatch from 0entreville,
Md, says: The telephone lines of the
Eastern Shore Telephone Company, with
wires, batteries and fixtures, were sold OF
sheriff's sale here to-day TO Ohas. 4, West
colt of Ohestertown, for $625. The line
Is SO miles long, and extends from
Stevensyille 10 Templeville.
At the last meeting of the board of
town commissioners the contract for the
extension Of the water works was awarded
to George W. d =. Taylor Co., Of this
town at $3,404. The bid OF Joseph FL.
Haines WINS 1914 lower, but the difference
was so trIfling that the commissioners de-
cided to award the contract to the Messrs.
Taylor in Difference to home mechanical
skill.-iSmyrnG Times.
the farm of Mr.. Henry M. Kepler, near
Middletown, Md, which had the initials
20. s." and the date "i76l" cut ON the
shell. This find caused Mr.. Kepler TO
look mp his old deeds, md among them
he found one, dated 1855, conveying the
| farm to one Casper Shoaf, and he is now
satisfied that the initials on the shell Of
the tortoise are those of this former
owner of the farm.
A big effort will be made this season to
give the Bright House, ut kehoboth, such
boom as II never had before. II has
| quite an array of backing as lessees,
| among whom are Supt. Groome, OF this
town, p. j. Hart, Georgetown; Colonel
SMALL, Lincoln; Major j. II. Loiland,
| Milford; Supt. l. N. Mills and b. Murphy,
Del. Div. Penna. II. II, and other in
fluential gentlemen, numbering 10 in all
-Breaktoater Light.
TheSmyrna Record is warming towards
IL Republican neighbor. 1t says: "a
more wahton invasion of domestic
privacy, more scandalOus and pointed
libel upon private character, and more
fragrant and violent outrage of public
sentiment, cannot be conceived by the
mind of man than was perpetrated by
that y ing, Bneaking, hypocritical, sensa.
tional sheet, which Id mockery is called
the Sentinel, published at Dover"
A number OF the Benedictine Sister
arrived ut The Plnins," on Tuesday weel
and demanded possession. MIR. A. MUIR,
Fisk, MIR. Rice's manager and whom Thu
boys have dubbed Father Fisk, !" having
no instructions TO that effect, refused
ah..,ls. ..
there, some eight or ten, with fou
laborers. A car load of household good
arrived Monday and tho sisters may b
said to have arrived bag and baggage
! GreensborOa9h Free Press.
I The contest over tho will of the lat
Thomas L. Carey, which WAS continue
v last week in the Easton court with III
( | ahntad intaraat alnaad Fria"v Naa-r
. ing and the jury, efter ieRs HWn nl
d hours deliheration, brought in Serdi'
a for the caveatseB on all the issues. I'll
point at Issue was whether the decease
!. was, at the time of making the will IL
victim of an insane deluAion which inc
4 pacitated him from making legal viii
n The verdict of the jury says he WINS not
l. The work on the reclaimed property
3. Collins Beech is still going on and wi
d occupy the summer TO do it as the con
y pany desires. The front embankmel
% stopping the inhowing tide WAS complete
last fail-the work of the dredging m
! chine now Is to cut ditch or channel U
l. to the head Of the meadow land 30 fe
O. wide. This is for the purpose OF bett
drainage. During the time it was subie
y, to the oyerfl0ws of tide water depo6
8. of from is inches to two feet was mac
le on the submerged land, elevating it
O. that extent, and adding greatly to its fe
tility. The higher part of the reclaiml
y, land has been sowed in timothy seed OF
be is showing luxuriant growth. The de,
lis wash where the break occurred h
90 already filled in is feet, or only two fe
ct below the water at low tide. II is Gale
in lated by the end of summer teams CT
by drive over it. Mr.. Collins does not
nd tend opening the house for q wateril
es place this summer. Smyrna Times.
at Elijah Parker of Whitesyille, abo
ne seven miles east Of Delmar commit
60 suicide Friday morning week. Parker liy
" on the outskirts of the town. For mont
ne it had been noticed that Mr.. Parker "
en- moody and appeared to be unhappy
hu his domestic relations. Early Friday we
,m he sent his wife and two of his childr
M distance from home, kissing them te
ng derby goodbye. His wife thought
ele action was strange, as he had not been
an ahectionate for long time. Shortly af
.ne they had gone he took his gun and VIZ
20. to thicket near the house but return
run to the orchard beside the house and VIII
~ he saw his oldest child, girl of q
ise years, approaching he called TO her to
hne back and when she paused he placed |
nan stock OF the gun upon the ground q
~ cooked the weapon, put the muzzle
III his ear, and with the ram-rod pushed 1
trigger. The charge carried away
entire back portion Of his head, soatt
ing his brains over the ground for d
g. lance Of several yards. No inquest '
held.
a ~ The work OF moving the freight depot
,o;r the Middletown station Is In operati
,aI Those employed state that It will take c.
iei siderable time TO arrange things IN pro
!, working order. The work consists In NOV
ISL, tho entire building back a distance of
rest feet, to allow space for the extra line
int track now In course OF construction. Z
10 a contract has been awarded to II. w, Glib
pe- OF philadelphia MittiLet0iDn Mem Era.
A. The water commissioners met last Thu
MI. day evening to consider the report OF
engineer ms TO the cost OF the promo
~ BhloT-WDfkS. ING eSLlmuLb1 COST OF
Tue works was placed ut I'll, 500, and this :,
TO for surface wells. The commissioners
& a turned tho report for more detailed spec
ced cations and also for cost OF driven We
Surface water Is not desirable and will
% be used in the Middletown water-work
,sa5 Middleton Transcript.
hat The hail storm on Saturday did consit
~ able damage to vegetation, and severa
the farmers in this vicinity, state that h
ugn truck patches are almost entirely destroy
l4i On the farm, near st. Anne's, occupied
e. Mr.. Charles Jones, young plants were
and beaten and broken as TO leave moth
ed standing but small stems. It ia also
VIII ported that MIR. Richard Naudain is q
~ considerable loss from the work Of the
so. stones In his berry patches. The hail
son, pears to have been confined to q small
nam trict, as we can learn Of no signs OF It In
can, vicinity Of Armstrong; Corner, Ode
Ion Warwick, nor q very great distance 4
the places named, where damage was d.
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